Barry: Paper shouldn't allow statements to go unchallenged

1:40 PM,
May 9, 2014

Written by

John Barry
New Orleans

I would think a newspaper has a responsibility to its readers to represent the whole truth, and not allow statements to go unchallenged when they are demonstrably false.

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